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STICKY You ever heard of Matar judíos? [720x2845 - 835KB]

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TIL Mathematical Fractals: Mandelbrots (not linked) and Sierpinski Triangle

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TIL there's not one specific chemical that gives bacon its smell -- it's the combination of 150 different compounds that create the heavenly smell.

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The jogger had long dirty toenails

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TIL the Great Wall of China faces the wrong way and the arrow slits point towards China at that time in history From Tartaria

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Groom of the Stool - Wikipedia | The Groom of the Stool (formally styled: "Groom of the King's Close Stool") was the most intimate of an English monarch's courtiers, responsible for assisting the king in excretion and ablution.

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(((Yagoda))) and (((Berman))) had forcibly sent 6000 deportees to a isolated island called Nazino, they were abandoned with only flour as food, little tools to work with, guards would shoot anyone that would try to escape. This led to widespread violence, terror, disease, starvation and cannibalism.

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TIL bipolar disorder, previously known as manic depression, is a mental disorder that causes periods of depression and periods of abnormally elevated mood.

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TIL Burning Man has its own enforcement group called "Black Rock Rangers"

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TIL The Newspaper Clipping Generator

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TIL: The Commerce Clause was used to justifiy federal authorty to enforce the Civil Rights Act of 1964

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TIL David Hogg is a Parkland shooting survivor

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TIL: It's February, not Febuary

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Number 142857

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Voyageur Airways = UN - A Canadian company based in North Bay

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Born without legs, 12-year-old Matthew DeMeritt helped bring E.T. to life in 1981 by walking on his hands inside the alien suit. [579x594 - 65KB]

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TIL it takes 50 glasses of water to grow enough oranges to make one glass of orange juice.

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George Washington actually killed someone

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TIL PURL

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TIL numerals have their equivalent of capital and lower case.

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NSFW TIL Do not share your AMC stock. [1440x2560 - 403KB]

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TIL the US FDA has a handbook of "levels of natural or unavoidable defects in foods that present no health hazards for humans" that allows, for instance, an average of 30 or more insect fragments per 100 grams and an average of 1 or more rodent hairs per 100 grams in peanut butter.

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TIL about Therians

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TIL McDonald's attempted to make their menu more nutritious by designing broccoli that tasted like bubble gum. Kids were confused by the taste. The bubble gum flavored broccoli was a failure.

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TIL cheetahs may be the fastest land mammal in the world, but there’s one thing they can’t do: Roar.

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TIL who the fuck Tony Bennett was. And I still don't care.

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